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How many years of study would it take to obtain a degree from a polytechnic in Singapore?
three
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What queen set up the Banská Akadémia?
queen Maria Theresa
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What year was the Banská Akadémia founded?
1735
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The Banská Akadémia was originally intended for training workers in what two precious metals?
silver and gold
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What year did teaching start at the Banská Akadémia?
1764
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What are the university buildings still standing at the Banská Akadémia used for now?
teaching
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What are polytechnics called in South Africa?
Technikons
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What year did Technikons gain the ability to give out technology degrees?
1993
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When did Technikons start being integrated with traditional South African universities?
2004
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Most institutes of technology in Thailand were born out of what other type of institutions?
technical colleges
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What type of degree were Thailand's technical colleges historically not allowed to confer?
bachelor's degrees
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What's the new name of Pathumwan Technical School?
Pathumwan Institute of Technology
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What did the Thonburi Technology Institute become after its name change?
King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi
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What was the previous name of Rajamangala University of Technology?
Institute of Technology and Vocational Education
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What is the name of Thammasat University's engineering school?
Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology
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What is Thailand's only government-established and owned institute of technology?
Suranaree University of Technology
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What year was Suranaree University of Technology founded?
1989
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What is the name of the best-known private institute of technology in Thailand?
Mahanakorn University of Technology
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What institute of technology opened in Bursa in 2010?
Bursa Technical University
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When Konya Technical University opens, how many total institutes of technology will there be in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire?
six
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What two cities in Turkey acquired institutes of technology in the 1950s?
Ankara and Trabzon
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What year did UK polytechnics start functioning in a binary education system?
1970
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What organization validates degrees received from polytechnic schools?
the UK Council for National Academic Awards
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What two-word term does Scotland use to describe their technological universities?
Central Institutions
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What was the first polytechnic in Britain originally named?
Royal Polytechnic Institution
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How many Institutes of Science and Technology were affiliated with the University of Wales?
two
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What was the name Loughborough University was known by from 1966 to 1996?
Loughborough University of Technology
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In what decade did colleges of technology gain the University designation?
1960s
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What act allowed polytechnic schools to become universities?
the Further and Higher Education Act 1992
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The Further and Higher Education Act 1992 allows polytechnics to award degrees without what organization's approval?
CNAA
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If a technical institute is affiliated with a local university, what does its designation become?
university colleges
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What century brought the advent of technical schools or technical institutes?
20th century
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A student would attend a technical institute before a university or polytechnic but after what?
high school
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In what year was Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute founded?
1824
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Which of the three earliest technological universities was founded most recently, in 1861?
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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What type of economy was technical education in Venezuela intended to support?
middle class
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When did Venezuela begin to create institutes of technology?
1950s
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What city in Venezuela had the first IUT?
Caracas
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Who pioneered using the French system of technological education?
Dr. Federico Rivero Palacio
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Where does the information stored on the Wayback Machine come from?
World Wide Web
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Which company made the Wayback Machine?
Internet Archive
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Where is Internet Archive headquartered?
San Francisco
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What individuals founded Internet Archive?
Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat
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What is the term used by Internet Archive to describe the Wayback Machine?
three dimensional index
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What operating system is used on Wayback Machine's servers?
Linux
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When does Wayback Machine save a copy of a website?
if the content has changed
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What is the ultimate aim of the Wayback Machine?
to archive the entire Internet
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What TV show served as inspiration for the Wayback Machine's name?
The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
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Which characters on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show used a device that allowed them to travel through time?
Mr. Peabody and Sherman
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What was the machine used by Mr. Peabody and Sherman named?
WABAC machine
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When was the program necessary to crawl and archive the web created?
1996
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What is a term used for programs that automatically visit websites and record the data they find?
crawlers
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What rule do crawlers abide by when determining which sites to record?
robots exclusion standard
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What site was created to mitigate issues with incomplete copies of websites?
Archive-It.org
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What medium was originally used to keep Internet Archive's data?
digital tape
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Who were sometimes permitted to use the Archive's database?
researchers and scientists
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At what milestone was the archive made public?
fifth anniversary
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Where was the event launching the publicly-available archive held?
University of California, Berkeley
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What are the saved versions of a site called?
Snapshots
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What is the minimum amount of time that elapses before most snapshots are released for viewing?
six months
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What term characterizes the rate at which snapshots are made of websites?
variable
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When did it become a requirement for websites to appear on Open Directory for inclusion in the Archive?
After August 2008
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Who stated that sites not on Open Directory were still being saved but would not be released until the Archive was reindexed?
Jeff Kaplan
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When did Kaplan make comments about the status of non-Open Directory sites?
November 2010
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In 2009, what size did the data saved by Wayback Machine reach?
three petabytes
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As of 2003, what was the rate of increase in the amount of data recorded by the Wayback Machine?
12 terabytes/month
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Where does Wayback Machine keep its information stored?
PetaBox rack systems
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Who makes PetaBox rack systems?
Capricorn Technologies
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When did Internet Archive chance its platform for data storage?
2009
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Which platform did Internet Archive adopt in 2009?
Sun Open Storage
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Where does Internet archive run a datacenter?
Sun Microsystems' California campus
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When was an upgrade of the Wayback Machine released for testing?
2011
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When were details of the test version of the updated Wayback Machine released?
March 2011
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The older version of Wayback Machine did not have much new data past what year?
2008
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The newer version of the Wayback Machine included date up to and including what year?
2010
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What was the functionality called that gave users the ability to save a snapshot of a site?
Save a Page
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nIn October 2013, the company announced the \"Save a Page\" feature which allows any Internet user to archive the contents of a URL. This became a threat of abuse by the service for hosting malicious binaries." ]
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When was Save a Page made available?
October 2013
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nIn October 2013, the company announced the \"Save a Page\" feature which allows any Internet user to archive the contents of a URL. This became a threat of abuse by the service for hosting malicious binaries." ]
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What 2009 court battle involved the Wayback Machine?
Netbula, LLC v. Chordiant Software Inc.
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nIn a 2009 case, Netbula, LLC v. Chordiant Software Inc., defendant Chordiant filed a motion to compel Netbula to disable the robots.txt file on its web site that was causing the Wayback Machine to retroactively remove access to previous versions of pages it had archived from Nebula's site, pages...
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Which company thought that Wayback Machine data was important for its argument?
Chordiant
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nIn a 2009 case, Netbula, LLC v. Chordiant Software Inc., defendant Chordiant filed a motion to compel Netbula to disable the robots.txt file on its web site that was causing the Wayback Machine to retroactively remove access to previous versions of pages it had archived from Nebula's site, pages...
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What did Chordiant request that the court deactivate on Netbula's website?
the robots.txt file
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nIn a 2009 case, Netbula, LLC v. Chordiant Software Inc., defendant Chordiant filed a motion to compel Netbula to disable the robots.txt file on its web site that was causing the Wayback Machine to retroactively remove access to previous versions of pages it had archived from Nebula's site, pages...
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Who did Netbula believe was the entity that should be responsible for the availability of its snapshots?
Internet Archive
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nNetbula objected to the motion on the ground that defendants were asking to alter Netbula's web site and that they should have subpoenaed Internet Archive for the pages directly. An employee of Internet Archive filed a sworn statement supporting Chordiant's motion, however, stating that it could...
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Which party did Internet Archive side with?
Chordiant
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nNetbula objected to the motion on the ground that defendants were asking to alter Netbula's web site and that they should have subpoenaed Internet Archive for the pages directly. An employee of Internet Archive filed a sworn statement supporting Chordiant's motion, however, stating that it could...
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Which judge presided over the Netbula v. Chordiant case?
Magistrate Judge Howard Lloyd
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nMagistrate Judge Howard Lloyd in the Northern District of California, San Jose Division, rejected Netbula's arguments and ordered them to disable the robots.txt blockage temporarily in order to allow Chordiant to retrieve the archived pages that they sought." ]
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In what jurisdiction was the Netbula v. Chordiant case tried?
Northern District of California, San Jose Division
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nMagistrate Judge Howard Lloyd in the Northern District of California, San Jose Division, rejected Netbula's arguments and ordered them to disable the robots.txt blockage temporarily in order to allow Chordiant to retrieve the archived pages that they sought." ]
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Which party won its argument regarding Netbula's robots.txt file?
Chordiant
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nMagistrate Judge Howard Lloyd in the Northern District of California, San Jose Division, rejected Netbula's arguments and ordered them to disable the robots.txt blockage temporarily in order to allow Chordiant to retrieve the archived pages that they sought." ]
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What does Telewizja Polska operate?
TVP Polonia
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nIn an October 2004 case, Telewizja Polska USA, Inc. v. Echostar Satellite, No. 02 C 3293, 65 Fed. R. Evid. Serv. 673 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 15, 2004), a litigant attempted to use the Wayback Machine archives as a source of admissible evidence, perhaps for the first time. Telewizja Polska is the provide...
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What is EchoStar's platform?
the Dish Network
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nIn an October 2004 case, Telewizja Polska USA, Inc. v. Echostar Satellite, No. 02 C 3293, 65 Fed. R. Evid. Serv. 673 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 15, 2004), a litigant attempted to use the Wayback Machine archives as a source of admissible evidence, perhaps for the first time. Telewizja Polska is the provide...
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Which judge denied Telewizja Polska's attempt to block the use of Internet Archive contents as evidence?
Magistrate Judge Arlander Keys
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nIn an October 2004 case, Telewizja Polska USA, Inc. v. Echostar Satellite, No. 02 C 3293, 65 Fed. R. Evid. Serv. 673 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 15, 2004), a litigant attempted to use the Wayback Machine archives as a source of admissible evidence, perhaps for the first time. Telewizja Polska is the provide...
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Which judge overturned Keys' ruling?
district Court Judge Ronald Guzman
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nIn an October 2004 case, Telewizja Polska USA, Inc. v. Echostar Satellite, No. 02 C 3293, 65 Fed. R. Evid. Serv. 673 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 15, 2004), a litigant attempted to use the Wayback Machine archives as a source of admissible evidence, perhaps for the first time. Telewizja Polska is the provide...
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When are Internet Archive timestamps useful for patent offices?
in examining a patent application
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nProvided some additional requirements are met (e.g. providing an authoritative statement of the archivist), the United States patent office and the European Patent Office will accept date stamps from the Internet Archive as evidence of when a given Web page was accessible to the public. These da...
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What is an example of a condition that must be met for the Internet Archive data to be considered acceptable for submission to patent offices in the US and Europe?
authoritative statement of the archivist
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nProvided some additional requirements are met (e.g. providing an authoritative statement of the archivist), the United States patent office and the European Patent Office will accept date stamps from the Internet Archive as evidence of when a given Web page was accessible to the public. These da...
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What kind of limitations exist in keeping copies of a website?
technical
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nThere are technical limitations to archiving a web site, and as a consequence, it is possible for opposing parties in litigation to misuse the results provided by web site archives. This problem can be exacerbated by the practice of submitting screen shots of web pages in complaints, answers, or...
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The omission of what element in screenshots can make them unreliable as evidence?
underlying links
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nThere are technical limitations to archiving a web site, and as a consequence, it is possible for opposing parties in litigation to misuse the results provided by web site archives. This problem can be exacerbated by the practice of submitting screen shots of web pages in complaints, answers, or...
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What elements of webpages are not used by Wayback Machine?
forms
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nThere are technical limitations to archiving a web site, and as a consequence, it is possible for opposing parties in litigation to misuse the results provided by web site archives. This problem can be exacerbated by the practice of submitting screen shots of web pages in complaints, answers, or...
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What kind of sites contain information that the Wayback Machine does not record?
e-commerce
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nThere are technical limitations to archiving a web site, and as a consequence, it is possible for opposing parties in litigation to misuse the results provided by web site archives. This problem can be exacerbated by the practice of submitting screen shots of web pages in complaints, answers, or...
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What kinds of laws could the Wayback Machine be viewed as breaking in Europe?
copyright laws
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nIn Europe the Wayback Machine could be interpreted as violating copyright laws. Only the content creator can decide where their content is published or duplicated, so the Archive would have to delete pages from its system upon request of the creator. The exclusion policies for the Wayback Machin...
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What would the Internet Archive have to do if requested by someone whose content is available on Wayback Machine?
delete pages from its system
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nIn Europe the Wayback Machine could be interpreted as violating copyright laws. Only the content creator can decide where their content is published or duplicated, so the Archive would have to delete pages from its system upon request of the creator. The exclusion policies for the Wayback Machin...
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In what part of the website are Wayback Machine's rules regarding removing content?
FAQ
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nIn Europe the Wayback Machine could be interpreted as violating copyright laws. Only the content creator can decide where their content is published or duplicated, so the Archive would have to delete pages from its system upon request of the creator. The exclusion policies for the Wayback Machin...
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Web pages that contained content critical of what religous movement were taken off of the Internet Archive in 2002?
Scientology
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nIn late 2002, the Internet Archive removed various sites that were critical of Scientology from the Wayback Machine. An error message stated that this was in response to a \"request by the site owner.\" Later, it was clarified that lawyers from the Church of Scientology had demanded the removal ...
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Who was mistakenly credited for having the sites with criticism of Scientology removed from the Internet Archive?
the site owner
[ "Wayback_Machine\n\nIn late 2002, the Internet Archive removed various sites that were critical of Scientology from the Wayback Machine. An error message stated that this was in response to a \"request by the site owner.\" Later, it was clarified that lawyers from the Church of Scientology had demanded the removal ...